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Recent media reports have drawn a causal link between computer games and real violence. Is that fair?

August 13 2004, 1:00am, The Times

IT IS wrong to say that computer games do not influence people’s behaviour. If television didn’t have an influence on us, no one would advertise. Films are part of the environment in which we all live, and they do not merely reflect society but help to shape it. Computer games exert an even more powerful influence because they require participation. All teachers know that what a child does influences him many times more than what he hears or sees. If the Government can prohibit antisocial activities such as smoking in public places, surely it can also prohibit these games.

S. Forbes, Stafford

Aggressive tuition

CONSIDER how much money is now invested by major companies in e-learning computer programs for staff training and development, and how…

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